Boldre, Hampshire, England

Situated in the Diocese of Winchester, the church of St John the Baptist at Boldre is, according to The Church of England - a church near you website, 'located in an idyllic setting on the edge of the New Forest. This is a traditional stone built village church in a very quiet part of Boldre, surrounded with fields. Visitors are always commenting on the tranquillity.' The church is fully described in 'The Buildings of England Series - Hampshire and the Isle of Wight' (1967), where Nikolaus Pevsner includes a description of an Alabaster tablet erected in memory of 'William Gilpin, rector of Boldre from 1777 till his death in 1804, the most influential of all writers on picturesque travelling, telling his readers what to look for, how to look, and how to create picturesque landscape effects'.